Picture-hanger.



PATENTED AUG. '7, 1906.

G. S. ARMSTRONG.

-PIGTURE HANGER. APPLiOATION FILED JUNE 16,1905.

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CLARA S. ARMSTRONG, OF COLUMBUS, OHIO.

PICTURE-HANGER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 7. 1906.

Application filed June 16,1905. Serial No. 265,611.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, CLARA S. ARMSTRONG, a citizen of the United States, residing at O0- lumbus, in the county of Franklin and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful 1m rovements in Picture-Hangers, of which t e following is a specification.

This invention consists of a lifting device for raising and lowering pictures in its preferred adaptation in hanging the same upon a wall or similar support.

The invention contemplates the provision of a suitable pole at one end of which is secured a head having spaced arms provided with means for engaging the supporting-wire of a picture to conveniently raise or lower the same from or to a nail or similar member upon which. the picture is or is to be suspended.

The invention includes also a special lifting member devised especially for use in bodily lifting pictures, together with the moldinghooks for supporting the same, in placing the picture upon the wall, suspending the same from the molding, or in lowering the same.

For a full description of the invention and the merits thereof and also to acquire a knowledge of the details of construction of the means for effecting the result reference is to be had to the following description and accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a perspective view of a device embodying the invention. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the invention, showing the same as when in use for lowering a picture suspended from a molding-hook. Fig. 3 is a top plan view bringing out more clearly the formation of the lifting-head of the device.

Corresponding and like parts are referred to in the following description and indicated in all the views of the drawings by the same reference characters.

The invention comprises the the head 2 at one end, said hea being preferably cast or otherwise formed and having a socket or opening 3 extending entirely therethrough to receive the end of said pole. The head 2 has the laterally and outwardly curving arms 4 spaced from each other and referably integrally formed with the hea by which they are carried, the arms 4 extending throughout their length in the same horiole 1, having zontal plane as the upper edge of the head '2 and are provided at their outer ends with integral upwardly-projecting spaced short and blunt lu s 5, each arm having two of these lugs, so t at the wire by which the picture is suspended may be received therebetween and prevented from slipping when the arms 4 are once engaged therewith.

In actual use to lower a picture from a nail or like member supporting the same the pole 1 is so manipulated that the arms 4. are engaged with the picture-wire upon opposite sides of the supporting nail or member, the lugs 5 of each arm 4 receiving the wire therebetween. By raising the ole slightly the picture will be disengaged om the nail and may be readily lowered, and the operation of raising or hanging a picture is obvious. When the device is to be used for raising or lowering a icture to be suspended from a moldin -hoo it is preferred to use the hook 6, whic projects laterally from the head 2 upon the side opposite that from which the arms 4 project. The hook 6 is of peculiar form, being flat in cross-section and widened, so as to conform with the curvature of the lower portion of a molding-hook commonly in use. The said hook 6 extends downwardy from the upper edge of the head 2 and about half the height of the latter and thence extends outwardly from the head and upwardly and terminates in substantially the same horizontal plane as the upper edge of the said head. In eflect the hook 6 is partially formed by the head 2 itself. It will be seen from the drawings that the head 2 is flattened on one side from its upper edge to a point about halfway its height to form one side of the hook 6. If the picture is suspended from the moldinghook, it is only necessary to engage the hook 6 with the lower portion of the moldin hook and raise said hook bodily with the picture, the weight of the picture on the wire carrying the same being suflicient to hold the moldin hook firmly upon the hook 6 aforesaid. n suspending or hanging a picture from a molding-hook the molding-hook is first engaged with the suspending-wire, and the hook 6 of the lifter device is engaged with the lower portion of the molding-hook, the latter being bodily elevated with the icture in engaging said hook with the mo ding.

It will be seen that the arrangement of the parts of the head 2 is very convenient and gives rise to a very simple and cheap construction of device from the standpoint of actual manufacture.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new, and desired to be secured by Letters Patent, is

The herein-described improved article of manufacture consisting of a picture-hanging device or lifter formed of one integral structure having a central head or socket 2 provided with an opening extending entirely therethrough to receive the end of the pole, and spaced integral arms extending laterally from said head at the upper edge thereof and extending throughout their length in the same horizontal plane as said upper edge and provided at their free ends with short and blunt spaced lugs, that portion of the said head opposite the bases of said arms being flattened from its upper edge downwardly for a portion of its height whereby to constitute one side of an upwardly-facing hook and the said hook curved outwardly and u wardly from the said flattened portion of t e head with its end terminating 1n a plane approximately coincident to the upper edge of the head as and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two Witnesses.

CLARA S. ARMSTRONG. [L. s.] Witnesses:

A. F. ARMSTRONG, Mrs. C. M. TAYLOR. 

